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Winter, Stefan - Shiites Of Lebanon Under Ottoman Rule, 1516-1788

Shiites Of Lebanon Under Ottoman Rule, 1516-1788

By: Winter, Stefan (Author). Cambridge University Press. Published: 31/03/2010. Audience Guide: Professional & Vocational.
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The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman Rule provides a new perspective on the previously ignored history of the Shiites as a constituent of Lebanese society. Winter presents a history of the community before the 19th century, based primarily on unpublished Ottoman Turkish documents. From these, he examines how local Shiites were well integrated in the Ottoman system of rule, and that Lebanon as an autonomous entity only developed in the course of the 18th century through the marginalization and then violent elimination of the indigenous Shiite leaderships by an increasingly powerful Druze-Maronite emirate. As such the book recovers the Ottoman-era history of a group which has always been neglected in chronicle-based works, and in doing so, fundamentally calls into question the historic place within 'Lebanon' of what has today become the country's largest and most activist sectarian community.

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ISBN10/13: 0521765846/9780521765848
TITLE: Shiites of Lebanon Under Ottoman Rule, 1516-1788, The
CONTRIBUTORS: Winter, Stefan (Author)
IMPRINT: Cambridge University Press
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press
FORMAT: Hardback
PUBLICATION DATE: 31/03/2010
SUBJECT: History, Asian & Middle Eastern
DIMENSIONS (Width x Height): 152mm x 228mm
PAGES: 240
AUDIENCE GUIDE: Professional & Vocational
ILLUSTRATIONS: 9 b/w illus. 3 maps
CONTENTS:

Introduction; 1. Shiism in the Ottoman empire: between confessional ambiguity and administrative pragmatism; 2. The invention of Lebanon: Ottoman governance in the coastal highlands, 1568-1636; 3. Mount Lebanon under Shiite rule: the Hamada 'Emirate,' 1641-1685; 4. The reshaping of authority: the Shiites and the state in crisis, 1685-1699; 5. Jabal 'Amil in the Ottoman period: the origins of 'South Lebanon', 1666-1781; 6. From dependence to redundancy: the decline of Shiite rule in Tripoli and the Bekaa, 1699-1788; 7. Conclusion; Bibliography.